any body have a spare engine they can take pictures of?

not sure about 250 rpm, but it sounds like one of the fastest starter motors ive heard, i can hear compression when i take out 3 spark plugs but leave one in. and sometimes the tachometer jumps to a high number but usually stays low.

i dont get it, it should have compression i mean, the valve gap if any should still show up....and the cam timing is still one tooth off... but how big a difference would that make?

 

ok, my dads friend (56 yr old mechanic) came over today... he had a look at my car, and its just amazing to see, how the things the young mechanics think are impossible, you see the experienced mechanics tricks go to play.

so heres what he did; he set the timing, the tensioner was jammed, and the bolt was loose (never noticed) and the intake had jumped 2 teeth, the exhaust 1, then he said to crank the engine over, unfortunately the battery was too low, so its charging overnight...but the engine did try to start, we did hear that.

he sed that cuz the engine sat for so long without a head, and fresh air getting in the cylinder bores, the oil had dried up, causing the piston rings to behave as if they were badly worn, (loss of compression) so when one of the cylidners fired and the others tried to catch on, it just didnt happen becuase of dried cylinders, harder to fire,

and somethign for everyone to know!!!

HE SED THAT WHEN TRYING TO GET AN ENGINE TO FIRE, DONT PUSH ON THE PEDAL, BECUASE THE ECU WILL THINK THAT YOU THINK THE ENGINE IS FLOODED AND WILL CUT THE FUEL OFF.

so hopefully it will start tommorow,

just a thankyou in advance to mitt4g, ST165-2765, and XR pilot

you are all godsends....even mitt for noticeing how long this forum has been going for lol.

 

JESUS DAMMIT MERCY IT JUST WONT START!!!

i sat there with the starter on, and the car is trying to fire, i can hear it firing but not running, the crack in my exhaust manifold is letting out gray smoke which is from what i no, half combustion...its just trying to fire it just cant get it to go!.

 

any trick for this problem? it just wotn kick off and run on its own!

 

doesnt act any differently

 

whats ether?

and yeh i can tell the car just needs that extra "kick" to start

 

o ok, yeh ive tried that

my mate sed to literally try squirting some petrol down the intake.....?

 

it nearly ran today
omfg!!

i heard the low humm it wnet

ru ru ru Bru ru Bru Bruuuu ru ru Bu rur

but again, it just couldnt catch on

 

the car started today! i held the throttle to about 1500-2000 and let it warm up and stuff, just to break it in.

but heres hte bad news, good thing im selling it becuase it was like driving a pedal powered army tank. incredibly slow. so i check the compression now that the engine is going.. i got around 50 psi, and 54 psi o cylinder no4

no way can i afford new piston rings so fuck it ill just sell it. it sounds like bad news to all you celica lovers but to me its just another car that i will never forget.

 

yeah every car i find myself doing more and more work, first it was a gearbox swap on a gemini, stripping down of a mazda 626, tuning a lada niva, head swap on a celica, whats next lol atleast im learning

thanks for all the help man!